Early Life and Education
Bleich is the older of two sons of Rabbi Manning H. Bleich and his wife Beatrice. He attended public elementary school and received private tutoring on Jewish subjects. From 1958–1962 he attended Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Radun. He received a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College in 1960, a master's degree from Columbia University in 1968, and a PhD from New York University in 1974.
Bleich is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a postdoctoral fellow at the Hastings Center, and fellow of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy. He received rabbinic ordination from Rabbis Moshe Feinstein and Mendel Zaks in 1957.
Bleich was a close student of the late Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, one of America's leading rabbis and the rosh yeshiva (head) of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas (a/k/a Mesivta Torah Vodaath) where Rabbi Bleich learned. In R. Moshe Feinstein's Iggerot Mosheh, Yoreh De'ah I, no. 67, Feinstein addresses Bleich as "my friend".
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